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A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offe

The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches

Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondar